The special significance of the majority Report, however, is to
be found in its rejection of the contention that unskilled white labour can compete successfully with black, and its refusal to accept as convincing the experi- ments of Mr. Cresswell on these lines. The majority Report, according to the Times correspondent, officially clears the path for the importation of Chinese labour. Two Commis- sioners, however, have signed a minority Report; and the fact that the Progressive party in Cape Colony, headed by Dr. Jameson, has declared against the importation of Asiatic labour stultifies the effort to discount the findings of the dissentients as animated by an anti-capitalist or Socialist bias. We await the minority Report with interest, and are
lad to see the frank condemnation of the scheme of stinging the native out of idleness by taxation imposed, not to raise revenue, but to compel a particular form of labour.
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